Have You Forgotten Chords

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[Verse 1]
C               F
I can't let you be,
             G           Am G F
cause your beauty won't allow me
C                  F
Wrapped in white sheets,
         G              Am G F
Like an angel from a bedtime story
     G                  Am
And shut out what they say,
             F                    Am G F
'Cause your friends are fucked up anyway
     G              Am
And when they come around,
         F               Am   G    F
Somehow they feel up and you feel down.
C             F
When we were kids,
           G            Am G F
we hated things our parents did
C            F
We listened low
    G              Am G F
to Casey Kasem's radio show
C                         F
That's when friends were nice,
             G              Am   G    F
To think of them just makes you feel nice
     G                 Am
The smell of grass in spring
      F                  Am  G  F
And October leaves cover everything.
 
[Chorus]
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
 
[Verse 2]
C                        F
I can't believe all the good things
      G          Am G F
that you do for me
C               F
Sat back in a chair
         G                Am G F
like a princess from a faraway place
G         Am
Nobody's nice,
             F          Am     G       F
when you're older your heart turns to ice
     G                 Am
And shut out what they say;
             F               Am G F
They're too dumb to mean it anyway
C             F
When we were kids,
          G            Am G F
we hated things our sisters did
C                F
Backyard summer pools
         G            Am  G  F
and Christmases were beautiful
        C      F
And the sentiment
    G             Am  G  F
of coloured mirrored ornaments
         G     Am
And the open drapes
             F                Am G F
Look out on frozen farmhouse landscapes
 
[Chorus]
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
C          G              Am G F
Have you forgotten how to love yourself?
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Have You Forgotten – Red House Painters

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This tab is more accurate than the other one, actually. Not perfect though: On the album, the guitar is tuned slightly sharp, and so will not sound exactly like this. The E-F-D-E riff is in a C-chord shape, not an F. All F chord shapes in the song are played like so: 133210, with your thumb fretting the bass note. The G is simply played by sliding this shape up two frets to 355430. This will allow muting after most of the chords, which is necessary for the strumming pattern to sound right. With these corrections in mind, I believe this song is as close as you can get to the album version.

Capo on 5 fret for the original one...

If you read the author's note at the bottom of the tab, he details how to make these chords sound like the recording. This tab IS more accurate than the other one. If you wish to play this song with the original studio recording, simply tune your guitar +50 cents (a quarter step) up and use a capo on the 3rd fret.